Dawson was 1–0 in an AFL Championship game played before the NFL and AFL first met in the Super Bowl. Three pairs of quarterbacks faced off twice in the Super Bowl: Staubach and Bradshaw, Aikman and Kelly, and Brady and Eli Manning. In each case the same quarterback (Bradshaw, Aikman, and Manning) won both games. The Vikings' past starting quarterbacks include Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Fran Tarkenton, Brett Favre and Warren Moon. [2] The team's first starting quarterback was George Shaw; he was replaced by Tarkenton in the franchise's first game, and the future Hall of Famer retained the starting role for most of the remainder of the season. The Vikings, of course, were upset by the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV. Kapp never played for them again. With his contract up, Kapp and his agent, John Elliott Cook, demanded a five-year, $1.25 The Vikings won their first nine games of 1973 and finished the season with a 12–2 record. [22] They then advanced to their second Super Bowl in franchise history, Super Bowl VIII, against the Miami Dolphins at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas; however, the Dolphins prevailed, 24–7. [1] He retired as a player in 1960 after 12 seasons in the NFL as a Hall of Fame QB. FIRST SUPER BOWL — On Jan. 11, 1970, the Vikings lost to Kansas City, 23-7, in Super Bowl IV at Tulane J.J. McCarthy's rookie season ended before it began. The Vikings quarterback's second season hasn't yet begun, but it's already clouded with roster and injury uncertainty. With such an undefined Defense dominated the first half as the only points were a safety by the Steelers — the first safety in Super Bowl history — when Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton was trapped in the end zone. The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). A franchise was granted to Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund and Max Winter in 1959 as a member of the American Football League (AFL). The ownership forfeited NFL quarterbacks with multiple Super Bowl wins: Tom Brady – 6. Joe Montana – 4. Terry Bradshaw – 4. Troy Aikman – 3. Eli Manning – 2. Peyton Manning – 2. Ben Roethlisberger – 2. John Elway – 2. When was the first time the Vikings went to the Super Bowl? The Vikings have made four trips to the Super Bowl in their 57 years as a team. The Vikings have made four trips to the Super Bowl in their 57 years as a team.. Minnesota's first appearance in the Super Bowl was Super Bowl IV in 1970 when the Chiefs toppled the Vikings 23-7. Kirk Daniel Cousins (born August 19, 1988) is an American professional football quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2012 NFL draft. The Buffalo Bills quarterback was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player for the first time on Thursday. Allen got 27 of 50 first-place votes, while Jackson received the other 23 - Allen The last time the first-team All-Pro quarterback and NFL MVP were different players was 1987, when John Elway won MVP but Joe Montana was the All-Pro QB (in 2003 Steve McNair was co-MVP with It marked the first time that the AP first-team All-Pro quarterback, which Jackson was named last month, didn’t win the award since 2012, when Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was Super Bowl LVII also marked the first time that both Super Bowl starting quarterbacks were black: Patrick Mahomes started for the Kansas City Chiefs, while Jalen Hurts started for the Philadelphia Eagles. [30] [32] The Eagles are the first team to have two different black starting quarterbacks start a Super Bowl. Samuel Richard Darnold (born June 5, 1997) [1] is an American professional football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, winning the Archie Griffin award in 2016, and was selected third overall by the New York Jets in the 2018 NFL draft. With the 2024 NFL regular season in the books, Nick Shook ranks the starting quarterbacks for all 32 teams. Which MVP candidate -- Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson or Joe Burrow -- finishes at No. 1? Bills quarterback Josh Allen, who won the AP MVP award, speaks during the NFL Honors award show on Feb. 6, 2025 ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl battle between the Chiefs and Eagles. Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen took home the 2024 AP NFL MVP award at the NFL Honors on Thursday in New Orleans, edging Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens for the league's top individual Los Angeles Rams QB Matthew Stafford, 36 years old; Pittsburgh Steelers QB Russell Wilson, 35 years old; New Orleans Saints QB Derek Carr, 33 years old; Seattle Seahawks QB Geno Smith, 33 years old; Now that Tom Brady has retired and moved on to broadcasting, Rodgers is the oldest active quarterback in the NFL.
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